Reviews
The Best of Kathryn Tickell
Kathryn Tickell started playing the Northumbrian smallpipes when she was nine. These are bellows blown with, unlike other bagpipes, a...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2010
Nordic Woman
Nordic Woman’s hauntingly beautiful opening flute melody could hail from any number of musical origins, but what follows is a...
Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
From Here
Every couple of years or so, a really good punk band comes along to remind everyone what's really important: saying...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2015
Dance to the Sun
Turkey has no shortage of baglama (lute) masters working on new forms of expression, and Europe has no shortage of...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Gypsybilly King
Canada's Adrian Raso won international prominence when he got together with Romanian brass band Fanfare Ciocărlia in 2014 to create...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
The São Paulo Tapes
On reading that Robert Wyatt came out of retirement to produce Vasconcelos' eighth album (having previously worked with her on...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: December/2017
Old Tire Swingers
Aside from a Facebook page, on which they good-naturedly promote other bands playing good-time music in and around their hometown...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2013
Salsa de la Buena!
Given the quality of the musicianship in evidence here, Toronto's salsa scene must be flourishing. No doubt conceived in the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2015
Super Son
Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo
Despite the name of Cuban trombonist Torres’ band (‘Something New’), 50 years later these 1977 cuts can’t help but sound...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: September/2024
Harlem Street Singer
Recorded and released in 1960, Harlem Street Singer is regarded as singer/guitarist Reverend ‘Blind’ Gary Davis’ masterpiece. It’s also a...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/March/2025
